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Teaching in in the 21 st Century: new approaches in the digital age Pete Sharma. alumni Sao Paolo July 2011. Do you blog? Do you tweet? Do you Facebook ? Do you have a Smartphone? Do you have a tablet pc? Do you have an anorak?. Aim.
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Teaching in in the 21st Century:new approaches in the digital agePete Sharma alumni Sao Paolo July 2011
Do you blog? • Do you tweet? • Do you Facebook? • Do you have a Smartphone? • Do you have a tablet pc? • Do you have an anorak?
Aim • To update on “what’s new” in digital trends in language teaching • To explore good practice
Overview (1) Innovations (2) Critical analysis (3) Controversies (4) Practical ideas (5) Focus on the future
(1) New era! • Chalk – e-pen • Digital immigrants vs digital natives (Prensky) • Web 1.0 – Web 2.0 • user content / collaborative
More than a coursebook……. Publishers no longer ‘sole’ owners
(2) Controversial:Multiple perspectives Trainer Theory DOS Multiple perspectives $$$ Teacher School Student Designer Author Publisher Developer
(3)Technology - changed language teaching forever Corpus linguistics
Augmented Reality App Tweet-deck Twitterverse “What’s trending now?” iPad Blog Wiki Txt spk CU l8ter Back channel Web 2.0
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Innovations • Is it ‘new for you’? • Five recent developments • iPad • Mobile dictionaries • Digital learning platform • Software developments • Second Life
New terms for the digital age ‘Learning object’ Re-usable Tagging Re-sequencing – ‘playlists’
Part two:Critical analysis of five technologies 1) Podcasts 2) Interactive whiteboards 3) Wikis 4) Virtual Learning Environments 5) M-learning
Downside (1)Podcasts Upside portability – mp3 player learner control authentic materials – ESP DIY range ‘wrong kind of podcast’ authoring – not for every teacher
(2) Interactive whiteboards Four approaches • Power Point • Word • CD-ROM • Internet • “Always-on Internet” • ‘Just-in-time’ teaching Approach one
Learner response devices Text to board Voting
Benefits • memorable presentations • ‘savability’ • review • ‘heads-up’ • precise answer
Drawbacks • cost issues • need to calibrate • ‘learning curve’ • can encourage teacher-centred classroom
Downside (3) Wikis Upside collaborative process writing ‘history’ to see changes not intuitive not everyone wishes for peer correction
Downside (4) Virtual Learning Environments Upside information on demand appropriacy pre/post course tasks time-consuming to learn ‘blended courses’ pleasing no-one cost issues Features: Assignments / Chatrooms / Questionnaire /Quizzes / Forum / Glossary / Handouts
Focus on appropriacy Synchronous Asynchronous
(5) M-learning “learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_learning
Downside M-learning Upside ubiquitous / helpful exciting 24/7 Young Too many contexts Too-focussed on ‘apps’